Friday, September 04, 2015

The unique and vibrant artistic style of Mid-Atlantic watercolor
artist Barbara Januszkiewicz will be featured when McLean Project for The Arts opens its art exhibition from 7-9pm on Thursday, September 10,
2015. Color Riff by Barbara Januszkiewicz features paintings designed
to spark a dialogue between the use of color and its conceptual link to
music.

Januszkiewicz is recognized for her unique style
and use of difficult medias like watercolor, a media that she has
mastered completely and takes to the next level with her ability to
capture the complexity of color. For this exhibit, however, she displays
her latest work of watercolor-like acrylics on unprimed canvas, a new
medium for Januszkiewicz.

"Januszkiewicz has a flowing, vibrant style akin to that of the Color School’s Morris Louis,” raves the Washington Post.

Januszkiewicz
has been influenced directly by music in her career. She strives to
capture how the music sounds and feels in her paintings. “I find it
intriguing that there is a vocabulary of words that apply to both music
and visual art, like movement, patterns, perspectives and layering,” she
says.

“Music is my muse,” she continues. “I am inspired
by the gritty undertones and rhythm patterns of the blues. I take a
song’s chord progressions and play with the idea of a mirror cord in the
colors I paint with. Blending the music and corresponding color notes, I
work to create luminous paintings that reflect the emotionalism and
improvisational freedom that we find in music genres like jazz.”

Viewers
can interact with the art through unique and rare online content.
Video and audio clips of the musicians and music that have inspired
Barbara’s artwork will be connected via a smartphone app to the
paintings.

Exploring the effects of every genre from jazz to
thumping garage rock to vintage blues can now be witnessed in exhibit,
where sound becomes visual.

The public, press and art
supporters are welcome to tour the exhibit and see the artwork and
interact with the artist on Thursday, September 10, 2015 from 7– 9pm,
McLean Project for the Arts, 1234 Ingleside Avenue, McLean, Virginia.
Color Riffs runs through October 24.